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Around 1978 Owen Hill
teamed up with an electronic
components company, Applied Technology of Hornsby (Sydney), для выпуска небольшого,
им созданного компьютера.
Applied Technology had been previously producing
kits in Australia for S100 boards. The Microbee was released as a kit in 1982
on the cover of Your Computer magazine, the manual was included free with the
magazine. They were an immediate hit, being quite a powerful little system
given the cost.

Applied Technology
eventually changed their name to
Microbee Systems, and sold ready-made versions. Их главным рынком (especially
for the 32) были австраллийские школы, which had the Microbee
recommended as the preferred system.

32k PC85 (Word processor, Basic, Spreadsheet, Database in ROM) - the last of
the line for ROM based machines - very neat and with built in networking.

Следом за "Microbee 32" были выпущены модели Microbee 56, 64 и 128.
There were all disk based systems using CP/M. The Microbee 128 was
intended as a high-end business system. There were also two really keen
prototype systems, the Gamma and the Delta, which were intended to compete
with the Amigas, but problems within the company led to their cancellation
not long before the company's collapse.